Phones

ORANGE BRINGS THE WATCHPHONE EXCLUSIVELY TO THE UK

Available for a limited time period, the LG Watchphone (LG-GD910) can be purchased at an exclusive price point – only from Orange

• The first devices will go on sale from 9:00am on the 27^th August in the Orange shop, Bond Street Station, Central London

London August 20^th 2009: Orange today announced that the LG Touchscreen Watchphone (LG-GD910) will first go on sale in the UK in its Bond Street Station shop on Thursday, 27th August. Available for a limited time only, consumers will be able to purchase the must have gadget of the year at the exclusive price point of £500.

Nokia N900 Preview (aka RX-51)

Eldar at Mobile-Review has just posted a huge preview of the upcoming Nokia N900 with more screenshots than you can shake a stick at. I wont spoil the all the fun here, but Eldar feels that the device is a true mobile powerhouse in every sense of the word, that comes wrapped in a very eye-candy and functional UI.

Some screens after the jump but to see the full run down pop on over to MR.

VIEW ALL YOUR DIGITAL PICTURES ON YOUR IPHONE WITH SIMPLIFY PHOTO

Remotely Access Your Entire Home Photo Collection, Without the Hassles of Synching or Uploading Files

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – August 19, 2009 – Simplify Media (www.simplifymedia.com), the developer of the popular Simplify Music app for the iPhone, today released Simplify Photo. 

Simplify Photo enables anyone with a digital photo library on a home computer to access them anytime, anywhere on their iPhone, iPod touch, laptop or netbook.  Simplify users can browse photos across platforms by folders, timeline, GPS location, and even Apple iPhoto, Events, Faces and Places.

Nokia RX-51 aka N900 spotted with screenshots.

According to his twitter, Eldar Murtazin from Mobile-Review has been playing with the hotly anticipated Nokia N900 and has decided to share a picture of the device along with a couple of screen shots. So far he has described it as the best device of 2009 and found the Maemo OS a pleasure to use.

Earlier Eldar said he would post a huge preview soon. Colour me excited.

A little strategy, a long way off.

Msmobiles.com posted this information regarding a delay to the oft-delayed Windows 7, in addition they plan to launch a dual-platform strategy utilising Windows 6.5 against Android and Windows 7 against the iPhone. Too complicated, too little, too late.

Tracy and Matt review Toshiba TG01

Nick over at Tracyandmatt.co.uk has published a review of the new Toshiba TG01. Interesting stuff as this certainly looked like one of the best phones of the year. 

TouchFLO 3D 2.6 (Manila 2.6) Tour

Here’s a video from Pocketnow sporting a video walk through of the new Sense UI style TouchFlo/Manilla interface for Windows Mobile. It all loks liveley and hides the fact you are using Windows Mobile. The capacitive screen option further fuels the HTC Leo rumours.

Official Wikipedia app for iPhone released

We hate those open-source do-gooders! Here they come again: many hardworking developers have released commercial Wikipedia apps for iPhone and those open source fanatics come and spoil the fun by releasing totally free and official (but still lame) app:

Palm now accepting paid App submissions for the App catalogue

We are not sure who should be more excited about this news, to be honest. On one hand, developers can finally take a major step toward actually making money from webOS, and on the other hand, Pre owners are now a giant leap closer to having more than 30-something apps. It really could be a toss up. The bottom line is the slow and painful ordeal that is Palm’s handling of all things app-related took a step forward today as Palm announced to developers that paid app submissions to the App Catalogue are now being accepted. While paid apps aren’t slated to hit the App Catalogue for a while yet, any news is good news at this point. Source: BGR

T-Mobile G1, updates and carrier responsibility

Word has been spreading around the internet today that T-Mobile’s first Android phone, The G1, will not receive any OS updates after Android 1.5. Whether this turns out to be true, or not, it got me thinking, what is a carrier’s responsibility to its customers?

When a service provider like T-Mobile convinces you to sign a 2 year contract in exchange for a heavy subsidy on a hot new phone, you enter into a two way agreement. You agree to pay them a lot of money every month for 24 months, and they give you a good price on a phone. I don’t think that can be the end of the story. The carriers expect you to carry the same phone around everyday for two years so they can recoup their costs, but in exchange they should have to support that device for the life of the contract.